MARY
Johnston captured several amazing photographs of the big catboat MARY in heavy weather. The yacht’s sail is both reefed and scandalized, her heavy boom supported by the topping lift, a vital piece of rigging on a catboat. Enlarging the photo shows MARY’s sail attaches to the mast using a track rather than mast hoops, and she has elegant laid decks. The boat, which looks to be about 28′ long, was designed by Philip R. “Phip” Elsworth of Bayonne, New Jersey, and built in 1893 at Mariner’s Harbor, Staten Island, by L.N. Tonn.